The impact of human-automation collaboration in decentralized multiple unmanned vehicle control

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 660-671

  Cummings, M L ^a   How, Jonathan P ^a   Whitten, Andrew ^b   Toupet, Olivier ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

^c Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Command and control; decentralized task planning; decision support systems; human supervisory control; human automation interaction; unmanned vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MOTION PLANNING; PLANNING; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AUTOMATED AGENTS; COMMAND AND CONTROL; COMPLEX MISSION; DECENTRALIZED TASK PLANNING; HUMAN SUPERVISORY CONTROL; HUMAN-AUTOMATION INTERACTIONS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED REASONING; OPERATOR INTERFACES;

COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84857360727     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2174104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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